China's Destiny and Chinese Economic Theory

Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975), head of the Chinese Nationalist Party and the self-appointed President of the Republic of China on Taiwan until his death, wrote his two books of political and economic theory during World War II. They were translated and published in a single volume just after the war in 1947 by Dennis Dobson Limited, London. That edition is reproduced here, including Jaffe's original introduction. At that time, almost everyone expected the triumphant capitalist West to crush the Chinese communist movement and install Chiang as a puppet leader. Global Oriental is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) was a political and military leader of twentieth-century China, becoming head of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1925. In 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country. He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1948. In 1946, after American-sponsored attempts to negotiate a coalition government between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Nationalists failed, the Chinese Civil War resumed. The CPC defeated the Nationalists in 1949, forcing Chiang's government to retreat to Taiwan, where Chiang ruled the island as the self-appointed President of the Republic of China and Director-General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975.